Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP )
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Grant Holder:
Edward Alleyn was the Elizabethan actor-manager who founded Dulwich College; with his father-in-law Philip Henslowe he ran several of the most successful acting companies of Shakespeare's time, including the Lord Admiral's Men, and expanded a number of London theatres, among them the Rose. The Henslowe-Alleyn Archive (held at at Dulwich College) consists of over 2000 pages of fragile manuscripts comprising the most important extant archive of material relating to drama and performance in the early modern period.
The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, co-sponsored by the University of Reading and King's College London's Centre for Computing in the Humanities, will make the single largest manuscript collection on early modern English theatre production and performance available as an electronic archive and website.
TIFF to JPG surrogates and Zoomify tiles for web delivery; METS to XHTML for navigation of the catalogue of images; XML to XHTML
| Project start date: 2006-01 | Project end date: 2009-11 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Image feature measurement | Data analysis |
| Image manipulation | Practice-led research |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
Funding sources:
British Academy, Pilgrim Trust
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Apache Tomcat, TEI, Apache Cocoon, Oxygen
Source material used:
Manuscripts
Digital resource created:
Website containing contextual materials; online catalogue of several thousand images (and metadata), which can be viewed at ultra high resolution
Data Formats created:
Extensible Markup Language (XML), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant, METS
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| University of Reading |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Dulwich College |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Grace Ioppolo |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Vetch |
| Title | Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP ) |
| Record created | 2009-09-29 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-25 17:05 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2339 |
| Citation of record | Paul Vetch: Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP ). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2339> created: 2009-09-29, last updated 2010-01-25 17:05 |